Side One
Drive My Car
I'm Only Sleeping
Nowhere Man
Dr. Robert
Yesterday
Act Naturally
Side Two
And Your Bird Can Sing
If I Needed Someone
We Can Work It Out
What Goes On?
Day Tripper
DISCOVERY; I had money! $.25 an hour driving tractor. Plenty to do between our farm and Linton's two farms. I could easily save enough money to buy an album every month all summer long! Day Tripper, that's a good song, I'll get this album next and it's a cool cover, aren't they wacky, Paul hiding in the trunk and what is George hiding under his sweater? Of course I didn't know anything about UK releases vs US releases or controversial banned cover art or any of the rest of it. Everything was as it should be and this was my new favourite album though I wasn't such a fan of Ringo's songs on this album. They've grown on me somewhat since then.
WHERE & WHEN; Several years later, the teenage version of me had fallen in love with a girl I met that afternoon. How we came to be listening to records in my basement room is a long story I could dredge from my memory banks and bore you with another time. Suffice to say she asked if she could borrow The Beatles Second Album. A true Beatles fan I thought at long last and as I'm so completely in love how could I say no? We trust each other now. Long story short I never heard from her again...
Sometime later, a year or so, her sister apologised on her behalf. I was completely over it by then anyway. Did she know I asked, that little minx surreptitiously slipped the Yesterday and Today LP from its jacket and made off with that one too! I wouldn't want it back now anyway, all scratched and abused. Valuable lessons learned. Material objects are only just that. Don't get attached. AND above all, do not fall in love in the course of an afternoon. You are likely to agree to things that cannot be undone. I keep the empty sleeve to remind me.
STATUS; Included in the US Albums box.
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